Wednesday, December 14, 2005

100,000 Visits

Sometime in the next hour (around 1500 hours), we will hit our 100,000th visitor. Last time we mentioned a milestone number (80,000 it was), some person tried to rip us a new one for thanking all of our readers, commentators and contributors. Here is the exchange from 25 November 2005:

SCC,What do want, a Department Commendation?!!! You would deserve as much as any the other heros we see walking around with the ribbon they got for just being on the scene of some other coppers good arrest.************************************(We Replied) No, we just wanted to say "thanks" to our readers. Where do you get off thinking we want something? It's tiny brains like yourself with limited reading comprehension skills who think that because people were raised right and thank those that help them build a successful enterprise, we're out to get something.

You and your ilk aren't happy unless you're tearing down someone who is doing well. We don't see your website up anywhere providing coppers with a tiny little bit of entertainment (for free no less) in the midst of a morale death spiral. You aren't reading ads here. We aren't making a dime here. We have a HOBBY that (happily) happens to involve other copppers who can contribute at no cost, other than their time. And maybe, possibly, sometimes, we can change the way things are done (like the illegal details).

We imagine your hobby involves a dark room, one hand, a blow up doll and mommy knocking at the door asking what you're doing in there. Go away troll.

So here we are, 19 days and 20,000 hits later and the numbers just keep going up. Despite the fact we might tempt the same troll to exercise his one handed typing techniques, we again say THANKS to everyone who visits, reads, comments, e-mails with ideas, whatever. Without you, we're just spouting nonsense into the electronic void that is the internet. With your visits, at least our nonsense might provide you with information to do your job, a thought that might help you avoid trouble, or a smile that sticks with you during an extremely long shift. Keep spreading the word people.

UPDATE: Got it about 1445 hours. So if you logged on then, it was probably you.

What, are you looking to get a DC/HM just because you intelligently put together, on your own time and at your own expense, a relevant and valuable avenue for your fellow police officers to share information, anecdotes and news?!?!?!?!

Congrats to SCC. I got plenty of ribbons on my coat that you can have if you want. However, if you need some USC to maintain your website, come up with a po box. NO PROBLEM. It's great to feel the pulse of other fools throughout the rest of the city like myself. Keep up the great avenue of communication.

You dummy.. African Americans are black people you uneducated goof.You know? The people who do most of the KILLING AND OTHER CRIMES in this city. If you’re not sure who they are just go to 26th and California. You should see that they are about 80% of the offenders there.

I can't stand that "politically-correct", pretentious "African-American" SEVEN SYLLABLE bullshit. The monosyllable "BLACK" is a perfectly respectful word. Use it and you can refer to me as a "white" guy. Otherwise, I demand to be described as "European-American" (EIGHT syllables). .

I was born here, call me an American. Not an irish-american, polish american, or european american. It is funny that those who scream loudest for equality do the most to ensure that they separate themselves from everyone else. Racism works both ways. Its a joke that we can have the United Negro College Fund, yet if anyone ever brought up the idea of an Aryan College Fund they would be immediately labeled as racists. Race seems to have become a convenient way to lay blame or get something for nothing.

It's funnyhow the same WHITE guy is able to bait the same people into racial inflamatory rhetoric.....I don't even think any Black Coppers even monitor this Blog/site...so we got White guys playing Black to incite other White guys to attack members of a different race...so let's give a hand to the Chicago Police Own Grand Klaxen!!!!

ShadyShadow -Would you PLEASE post your rants on your own blog and just throw a hyperlink into SCC's post? God it is so annoying to see such non-sense taking up good space. I'm not asking you to censor yourself - by all means express your views but try to be more concise. As you're so wont to quote the Great Will - "brevity is the soul of wit."